Amazon to hire 6,000 full-time warehouse workers

Amazon is hiring 6,000 full-time workers to staff-up across its more than 50 distribution centers in the U.S, including its warehouse in Breinigsville. (Contributed photo, THE MORNING CALL)

Amazon is hiring 6,000 full-time workers across its more than 50 distribution centers in the U.S, including its warehouse in Breinigsville.

The workers will pick, pack and ship products to fulfill customer orders. Currently Amazon has about 50,000 full-time workers at the centers.

Advertisement

Amazon has been opening distribution centers across the country to speed up delivery times. Its $99 annual Prime membership service comes with free two-day delivery on many items.

The Seattle-based company employed about 154,100 full-time and part-time workers at the end of 2014.

Amazon in general has been expanding its Prime program's offerings to grow its membership with services such as grocery delivery, one-hour delivery in some cities, beefed-up video streaming and the creation of a Bluetooth speaker called the Echo that syncs with Prime music.

"Right now, we just have a pretty big hole to fill from an operations standpoint," Jason Muller, operations manger at Amazon, said at a Morning Call job fair at Coca-Cola Park earlier this month.

Muller didn't have a specific number of openings, but said pay starts at $12.50 an hour. Those chosen would become Amazon employees at the Breinigsville warehouse and would not be temporary positions, he said.

Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Amazon will be hiring at its warehouses in Carlisle and Hazleton.

The Associated Press and The Morning Call contributed to this article.